Note to Anon Mhkv 20III
[3] mansǫng ‘a love-song’: As a neutral designation, the word occurs in skaldic verse only here and in Bjbp Jóms 42/4I. Gylf (SnE 2005, 25) reports that Freyja was fond of mansǫngr, and in Egils saga (Eg ch. 56, ÍF 2, 149) a character refers to a lausavísa as a mansǫngr. The final medieval prose instance – Tristrams saga ok Ísǫndar (Kölbing 1878-82, 83) – associates mansǫngvar with love longing and music, as does the later mansǫngur or opening ‘love-complaint’ of rímur poetry. See Marold (2007, 256-7).
References
- Bibliography
- ÍF 2 = Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar. Ed. Sigurður Nordal. 1933.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Marold, Edith. 2007. ‘Mansǫngr – A Phantom Genre?’. In Quinn et al. 2007, 239-62.
- Kölbing, Eugen, ed. and trans. 1878-82. Tristrams saga ok Ísǫndar. 2 vols. Heilbronn: Gebr. Henninger.
- Internal references
- 2022, ‘ Anonymous, Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 162-389. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=14> (accessed 24 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=113> (accessed 24 April 2024)
- Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 42’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 995.